hi Jason,

Even though Oracle agent does the 'backup' operation, you can think of the
backups as 'archive' since object names that backed up is unique for every
backup.  The backed up objects can be on the Tivoli Storage Manager Server as
long as a customer wants.  I would recommend to use different management class
for weekly full backups so that the backups can be retain for as long as the
customer wants.  Whenever you perform the weekly full backups, don't forget to
back up the catalog database also.

regards,
Thiha


>How would a person configure Tivoli Storage Manager to
>keep a weekly full backups of a 120GB Oracle database
>for 7 years.

>Specifically they would be using Tivoli Storage
>Manager 3.7 with Tivoli Data Protection for Oracle.
>They want to performing daily incremental backups, and
>weekly full backups.  They need to keep the weekly
>full backups/archives for 7 years (and yes they are a
>financial institution).  They thought they could
>perform an instant archive although I don't believe
>this is available for the agents.  The fact that
>Oracle doesn't "archive data" and that EBU/RMAN
>controls the inventory of backups this seems to make
>things more difficult.  What do you recommend or what
>have other customers done in the past?

>Thanks in Advance